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More than 20,000 tonnes of diesel fuel has spilled into the Ambarnaya river in Siberia
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20.08.2024
Putin declares state of emergency over Siberian fuel spill
The Auschwitz museum is appealing for financial aid after the virus lockdown 'collapsed' the annual budget
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20.08.2024
Auschwitz museum struggling for funds under lockdown
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet (pictured February 2020) insisted that the grievances at the heart of the protests that have erupted in hundreds of US cities needed to be heard and addressed if the country
World
20.08.2024
UN rights chief condemns 'structural racism' in US
People cycle past Tiananmen gate on the eve of the 31st anniversary of the June 4, 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Beijing
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20.08.2024
Amid unrest at home, US presses China on Tiananmen
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The Vatican approved an investigation into Bishop Henryk Janiak of Kalisz, Poland, after the release of a documentary detailing abuse cases that he allegedly covered up
World 20.08.2024
Vatican investigates Polish bishop for abuse cover-up
Healthcare workers from around Spain (pictured March 2020) react to the people's support as they are cheered on outside their hospitals in the cities of Barcelona, Burgos, Valencia, Coruna and Palma de Mallorca
World 20.08.2024
Healthcare staff win top Spain prize for 'spirit of sacrifice'
Without the coronavirus pandemic, the man with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head might never have been found
World 20.08.2024
How Rwanda genocide suspect spent 25 years on the run
Some 20,000 people protest the 2016 death of a young black man named Adama Traore in French police custody, using slogans echoing those in the demonstrations raging in the US.
World 20.08.2024
France urges calm after tense protest over black man's death
Some countries are only just ramping up more testing
World 20.08.2024
Italy leads Europe reopening borders as virus strikes LatAm
Accused of financing the 1994 genocide of some 800,000 people, Kabuga wanted a trial in France, not Tanzania
World 20.08.2024
French court backs UN trial for Rwanda genocide suspect
US President Donald Trump seeks to bring Russia back into the G7 despite its having been expelled for its 2014 invasion of part of Ukraine
World 20.08.2024
Trump says 'common sense' for Russia to rejoin G7
COVID risk: Senegal introduced emergency measures on March 23
World 20.08.2024
Clashes in Senegal over virus curfew
India has lost vast swathes of forest to urbanisation in recent decades, forcing animals closer to human settlements
World 20.08.2024
Pregnant elephant dies in India after eating explosive fruit trap
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